![]() The Rumpus: I know you were stalled on this novel for a long time. Day she and I spoke about what it takes to come back to a story and characters after a time away, how she’d want her book to be framed in the world as a black writer, and how her Christian faith influences her writing. ![]() It was in that space that I knew of her well before the book deal was inked. She’s also the author of a short story collection, Every Kiss A War, a writer for Oxford American, and an avid user of Twitter. It will fool you into complacency, in the manner of a cozy blanket and a warm fire, but the human motivations and desires at play are not, of course, what they seem.Ĭross-Smith is an unabashed homemaker, mother of two, and co-editor with her husband, Loran, of the well-respected online journal, Whiskeypaper. ![]() ![]() And yet, her debut novel Whiskey & Ribbons seems timeless. Leesa Cross-Smith’s story of Evangeline, a classically trained ballet instructor, her ill-fated cop husband, Eamon, and his best friend, Dalton, was almost twenty years in the making. ![]()
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